Yup. And here’s some more to back you up. There are several satellites whose sole purpose are tracking greenhouse gas emissions.

Japan has GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite) and GOSAT2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_Gases_Observing_Satellite

NASA has Tanager-1 https://www.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/nasa-designed-greenhouse-gas-detection-instrument-launches/

And two CO2 mappers along with a dedicated methane mapper.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5332/

The ESA has Sentinel-5P https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Space_for_our_climate/Satellites_providing_clear_picture_of_greenhouse_gases

There’s also MethaneSat that tracks methane emissions. https://www.methanesat.org/satellite

And GHGSat which tracks industrial emissions. https://www.ghgsat.com/en/technology/constellation/

Bandcamp is great for extremely underground artists, but that’s about all that is on there.

Nope. This has been proven false by pretty much every study on the subject for 50 years.

Good thing is that this doesn’t really get to be an opinion. Well, I guess anything can be an opinion, but this one is objectively wrong if you differentiate them.

There have been several studies done on this, and brain scans show that physically reading with your eyes and listening to an audiobook trigger the exact same responses in the brain. They have the exact same effect, and your brain comprehends them the exact same.

Studies back in the 80s showed a direct correlation in listening comprehension and reading comprehension. They’re directly linked. In the 70s, studies showed that college students that listened to a short story could summarize it with equal accuracy to those that read it.

The science is pretty clear, physically reading a story and listening to it are the exact same and require the same amount of effort and attention to walk away with a good comprehension of the material.

And how much do you think the artist gets from the CD sale? Listen to it more than a handful of times, and it’s a lower payout than streaming.

Apple Music has the second highest payouts to artists, only behind Tidal which is much more expensive.

You really can’t have it both ways. You either want artists to get paid, in which case you’re paying more, or you want it for cheap and artists get paid less.

No it’s hard. There’s absolutely no question about it. And I love lifting and working out. It’s hard.

But that’s also a product of a sedentary generation where physical labor is not the primary means of making a living.

I grew up in a blue collar family and did it myself until I joined the military. Physical labor is hard.

My dad, my grandpa, and most of the rest of my family didn’t have a choice. Making money and raising a family is hard. They all did it with hard manual labor. Plumbing and being mechanics and doing paint and body work. They didn’t need to exercise because they were lifting weights all day as a job.

Most of us don’t do that today. We drive to work, sit around at a computer, drive home, and then sit around being exhausted mentally. I get it. It’s hard to say “go lift weights for fun” or “ok now go run 5 miles.” It’s a lot easier to be exhausted and healthy when your day job is physically intensive because you knock out that basic requirement. You go home tired but physically fulfilled.

I’m in an office now and I hate it. I miss being physically exhausted just from work. I miss when going to the gym was extra trying to grow more and not just a necessity to not rot into my chair.

It’s hard to go to the gym now when I’m mentally exhausted doing shit I hate. I hate that the office drains my energy doing bullshit.

It’s hard. That’s not a knock on people today. But it is still necessary. And there’s no easy button like for everything else. You can ozempic your way out of being fat, but you can’t ozempic your way out of depression. Antidepressants are far from an easy button and often cause more problems. Being skinny doesn’t fix it the same way as working for it does.

Ugh. Yeah that’s a bitch. Cheaper than a legal fight but that’s not helpful if it crunches the budget.

But if you can swing it, it will only be a long term benefit. Especially with kids.

Yeah. I’d hate for some dumb legal shit to happen over nothing. Best to just get it done and a clean slate with no legal issues at all, even if it is a pain in the ass.

It’s also a lot of legal rights and privileges. And in many places it’s also a default inheritance. If something were to happen to her, you would have no rights to make any decisions. Her husband would. Her assets would become his.

Even if you aren’t interested in being married, it’s in her best interest to actually finalize the divorce to avoid a litany of issues.

I’ve met my federal representative in person a dozen or so times at her office locally, and been to 6 town halls, both in person and virtual teleconference town halls. My state House rep I have met a ton. He’s extremely active in the community.

Your first point is the big one.

Everybody wants an easy button for everything. Exercise is hard, requires consistent effort over time, and the results are subtle and take a while to see.

Lol yeah that’s the issue. You cannot expect people to put rules on themselves like that if nobody is going to enforce it. It truly does fall to the constituency to be the enforcement by voting them out when they abdicate their responsibilities.

It should be, yes. The good ones are already doing this, but there absolutely should be some requirement to make the lazy ones actually do their job.

And, ideally, we’d have an active and informed constituency that keeps their representatives honest. They should be terrified of being voted out because their constituents keep their feet to the fire.

Oklahoma has had Service by Publication for over 20 years.

Most places have Service by Publication, including Oklahoma.

She would need to file the petition, and then run a legal notice in a paper that serves that county, and that would count. Doesn’t matter if he ever actually sees or responds to it. She will have fulfilled her legal obligation for service.

You’re wrong, but for a different reason.

Being on recess isn’t the issue. They should be on recess and working in their districts more often than they are actually in session in DC. They ideally shouldn’t be in session that much at all. Their primary role is being at home in their district working with their constituents and that’s where the vast majority of work is intended to take place.

Not working while on recess is a completely different issue, and that’s up the constituents to enforce via voting. Plenty of representatives and senators are actively working in their districts when on recess, like they should be. Those that aren’t should be voted out by their constituents. If the constituents keep voting them in, they’re openly saying that’s the representation they want. And that’s on them.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how Congress works.

Time spent in DC is supposed to be the smallest part of their job. Recess isn’t vacation for them, if they’re doing it right. Recess is when they actually do the job of representation. They’re supposed to be spending time in their districts holding town halls, having open office hours, and working with local groups on issues that need to be brought up when they are in session.

They should be spending more time with their constituents than in DC. Spending time with constituents is the most fundamental job function of a representative.

A lot don’t do that though, and that’s on their idiot constituents for continually voting them in and not holding them accountable.

No. They are required by law to buy their own health insurance from the ACA marketplace.

There’s a difference between “has connected features” and “REQUIRES connected features” though. Again, you’re making a false equivalency.

Yes, pretty much every new vehicle has some sort of connectivity, and almost all have some sort of paid subscription to use those connected features in the app.

That’s entirely different than requiring you to have a subscription and use the app. Most new cars do NOT do that. They still have all the basic functionality without using the connected features, and the features are literally extra features so you can do things outside of the range of the fob, or add some extra things that the fob can’t do.